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Sidi Daoued

Wind power plant in Nabul, Tunisia. Approximate location 37.0419, 10.9363.

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Sidi Daoued is a 70 MW wind power plant in Nabul, Tunisia. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 59,568 homes (estimated). It ranks #14 of 27 Tunisia power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, wind supplies about 1.5% of Tunisia's electricity; the national grid averages 560 gCO₂/kWh (4.0% low-carbon) (2025).

70MW installed capacity
59,568homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1023623.

Capacity vs largest wind plants in Tunisia

Metline: 72 MW72MetlineSidi Daoued: 70 MW70Sidi Daoued

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Local climate & thermal context

This wind plant converts the kinetic energy of wind into electricity through turbine rotors. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 37.0°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

18.3°Cannual mean temp
780heating degree-days (base 18°C)
896cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
38 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 12 °CJF: 12 °CFM: 13 °CMA: 15 °CAM: 19 °CMJ: 22 °CJJ: 25 °CJA: 26 °CAS: 24 °CSO: 21 °CON: 16 °CND: 13 °CD26 °C

Heating degree-days here run 68% below the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.

Climate heat-demand index: 24/100 — this site sits in the bottom third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.

In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.

Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #2 largest wind power plant of 2 in Tunisia by capacity.

Tunisia has 2 wind power plants in this dataset, together about 142 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 37.0419, 10.9363 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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